Re: Grub under VMware for Linux

From: Andy Valencia <vandys_at_nospam.org>
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 11:02:26 PDT

["Dines, Eric" <Eric.Dines@iluka.com> writes:]

>I have just started using VMware for Linux, to try and simplify my
>development platform(s), but cannot get any of the versions of Grub to
>install on the virtual hard-disk.
>I keep getting a message "Stage1 Stage2 geom wrong" or something like that.
>Grub is 0.5.95, VMware is 2.02, Linux RH 6.2
>I've got dos booting on it OK, and I can boot off a floppy with the kernel
>on the virtual disk, but I can't install it!!!

This is probably an issue which the main grub development list would be
interested in. All I can see concerning VMWare so far is:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub@gnu.org/msg01954.html

Which may very well be a related problem.

Andy
Received on Tue Oct 3 09:37:59 2000

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